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Look-back 5: Look-back on Your Look-backs

Sprint 4 · Extra credit · ~30 min · Optional · 5 pts

Sequential

Do Look-backs 1–4 first. This one looks at the pattern across all of them.

5 points. ~30 minutes. The look-back exercise itself was teaching you something. This one names what that was.

Extra credit · recovery

Recovery for points you lost earlier

If you've fallen behind on grades, this is a real path forward.

Each look-back asks you to revisit one piece of Sprint 1–3 work honestly. Complete it, then check-in with Prof. Sathya in class to get credit for your submission — work is reviewed and credited on the spot.

You don't have to do this. It's optional. It's here because the work itself is worth doing — and the points help if you need them.

How this works · Read first

The Look-back workflow — four steps.

  1. Open your existing "Sprint 4 Look-backs" Google Doc. Add a new section titled "Look-back 5 — Look-back on your Look-backs".
  2. Re-read your previous four look-backs in your Look-back doc before you write. The pattern is what you're looking for — recurring avoidances, recurring honesties, recurring shapes of insight.
  3. Write your responses to the 6 prompts below, directly in your Look-back doc.
  4. Export as PDF and submit here on Canvas. File → Download → PDF Document. This final submission contains all five look-backs together.

The 6 prompts

Step 1 of 6

What's the pattern across your previous four look-backs?

Re-read them. What recurs? Same kind of avoidance, same kind of honesty, same kind of insight you keep arriving at? Name it.

Step 2 of 6

Which look-back was hardest to write honestly?

Why? What made that one resistant?

Step 3 of 6

What did the look-back exercise itself develop in you that the original assignments didn't?

The original assignments asked you to do work. The look-backs asked you to look at how you did the work. Name the difference in what each developed.

Step 4 of 6

Where in Sprint 4 will you do this without being asked?

Self-evaluation isn't something that needs an assignment. Where in your Sprint 4 work — your goal, your Solution Brief, your defense — will you apply this on your own?

Step 5 of 6

One thing you'd tell yourself in Sprint 1 if you could.

Knowing what these look-backs surfaced. One sentence.

Step 6 of 6

One sentence about how you evaluate your own work.

Across all the look-backs and across this exercise. The honest sentence about your actual evaluation habits.

How to earn the credit

Check-in with Prof. Sathya in class to get credit for this submission. Your work is reviewed and credited on the spot.

PDF ONLY

Submission format

Submit as PDF only — Canvas will reject other file types.

How: Write in your Sprint 4 Look-backs Google Doc, then File → Download → PDF Document. Upload that PDF on the Canvas assignment page — nothing else.

Reminder: This is the capstone look-back. The PDF you submit contains all five look-backs together.

Submit on Canvas →